THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“The shame of speaking unskilfully were small if the tongue onely were thereby disgrac’d: But as the Image of a King in his Seale ill-represented is not so much a blemish to the waxe, or the Signet that seat’d it, as to the Prince it representeth, so disordered speech is not so much injury to the lips that give it forth, as to the disproportion and incoherence of things in themselves, so negligently expressed. Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune, whose words do jarre; nor his reason in frame, whose sentence is preposterous; nor his Elocution clear and perfect, whose utterance breaks it self into fragments and uncertainties. Negligent speech doth not only discredit the person of the Speaker, but it discrediteth the opinion of his reason and judgement; it discrediteth the force and uniformity of the matter and substance.”

— Ben Jonson

BIRTHDAYS:

1572 Ben Jonson, English playwright, poet, actor, and scholar whose works emphasized classical learning, satirical critique of human folly, and structured dramatic forms during the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.

1723 Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (scientist; first to observe Halley’s comet on its return).

1842 Carl von Linde, German engineer and chemist (inventor of mechanical refrigeration).

1864 Richard Strauss, German composer. Also sprach Zarathustra (34:22)

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